The Eventide Space has some fantastic reverbs with a very high level of tweakability, if that's your thing. Just bear in mind you get a HELL of a lot more with the Space for the extra $100 it will cost you. If you want great sounds with minimal effort and don't care about presets, get the Flint and consider the Trem side a bonus. So, to answer your original question, if you want the power and control but you're on a budget, look for a used Space - they can be had for around $380. Works only with iOS at the moment and it only does one sound at once - Eventide's 'solution' to this is to just buy more H9s! I have said this several times already, but you do need to read the manual and understand some of the principles of reverb to really get the best out of it.Īs for the H9 - meh! Apparently it will be priced at $500 street and $20 per additional algorithm (I can't speak for the Pitch or TimeFactors, but I found most of the ModFactor algos disappointing). My aux switch was $16 so it's not really that big a deal.Ĥ. A 3 button aux switch means you can select patches and still use the hotswitch and tap tempo - otherwise it's a bit of a nuisance switching between play and preset modes. The PSU is a bulky wall wart with a flimsy cable that never really feels securely attached.ģ. It has tails though so it's not as if the sound goes dead.Ģ. Switching patches can take a second or so if the pedal needs to load a different algorithm. They release updates every so often with new features - eg last year the Space got a hotswitch ambient freeze feature.ġ. USB makes flashing firmware a breeze and there's a patch librarian.ĥ. The Hotswitch can store alternative values for all of the knobs so each preset can have two radically different sounds if you so choose. There are also tons of live performance control options with the hotswitch, external aux switches, expression pedal and MIDI. It's very easy to dial in when you've got the hang of it. This may put some people off, but seriously don't just hope to wing it - take a couple of hours and study the manual. Reverb is a deep science and Eventide has a long studio pedigree in this area.Ĥ. The more adventurous algorithms are great if you're doing radical sound creation. Some algorithms allow for multiple simultaneous effects (eg modulation, delay and reverb, or tremolo and reverb). The standard algorithms (plate/hall/room/spring) are very realistic and most have a ton of parameters for getting exactly the sound you want. Large screen which is easy to read - it's about 6 times larger than the Strymon Mobius/Timeline screens and you can give your patches long descriptive names.ģ. The Flint has 1 (or 2 if you buy the optional favorite switch).Ģ. I owned the Strymon BSR for about a year and still have a Flint and a Neunaber Stereo Wet. I think it's the best reverb stomp box currently out there - there's really not much you can't do with it. Read the manual - this is a deep and sophisticated unit, not a plug and play toy. If you read the notes it will tell you how to get the most out of the presets - quite a few of them are actually intended for vocals/drums/special fx etc and will sound a bit weird on guitar if you're just browsing through them. You will need to work on the factory presets as most of them are demonstrating the more 'out there' potential of the box. The effects are top class and there's nothing out there with this level of control. You're getting the power of a $2k studio rack unit with most of the functionality in a stomp box. Nice smooth Shimmer, but you have to flash the firmware with your computer to switch algorithms.Įventide Space - In a totally different league. Neunaber Wet - Idiot proof and great for huge ambient washes, but at the expense of realism. Hard to get a bad sound out of it, but very limited tweakability. Strymon Flint - Great basic sounds and it's pretty much plug and play for what 90% of guitarists probably want. You wouldn't believe how many reverbs I own in hardware or plugin form!)
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